NRES 488/688
Lecture:
M,W
127 KRC
Lab:
M
127 KRC
Graduate seminar:
1:30-3:30 T
Office: 133 KRC
Phone: 784-6556
Email: jsedinger@cabnr.unr.edu
TA: Jessi Brown
Course objective: This course is intended to provide students with the basic tools for the modeling, analysis and management of wildlife populations. The course will involve modeling of population data and estimation of key parameters such as abundance, survival and breeding probability. Students will experience the philosophy underlying scientific management, and interpretation and decision-making in the face of uncertainty existing in ecological systems of interest to managers.
Course materials:
Williams, B. K., J.D. Nichols, and M. J. Conroy. 2002.
Analysis and Management of Animal Populations. Academic Press,
and selected readings from other texts and the primary literature.
Student integrity policy: Students are expected to work completely independently on examinations (in class and take home). Plagiarism (using other's words or ideas without attribution) is not consistent with the integrity required of scientists or natural resource managers and will not be tolerated. Students violating either of these standards will receive a failing grade in the class. Students are free to work together on homework and, of course, team projects.
Grading:
Undergraduates:
Homework 10%
Midterm I 20%
Team project 40%
Final Examination 30%
Graduate students:
Midterm I 20%
Seminar participation 15%
Presentations 35%
Final Examination 30%
Graduate and undergraduate students will be graded
separately on items, like examinations, completed by both groups.
Graduate students will be expected to demonstrate greater depth and a
higher degree of synthesis.